Cricket 1904

A ug . 18, 1904. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OE THE GAME. 341 YORKSHIRE r. WARWICKSHIRE. AN EXCITING FINISH. Played at Huddersfield on August 11, 12 & 13. Warwickshire won by six runs. This match was played on a bowlers’ wicket, but the famous Yorkshire bowlers hardly seemed to make the best use of it. The absence of F. S. Jackson very greatly weakened the Yorkshire side aDd perhaps if he had been playing the result of the match might have been different. On the first day it was very difficult to make runs, but Hirst, after beginning in great form and securing two wickets, was harmless, and it was left to Myers, who nowadays seems the only Yorkshire bowler who can be depended on, to get most of the wickets. Nevertheless, Yorkshire at first did so well that seven wickets were down for 79 runs when Santall was joined by Moorhouse. The fortunes of the game then completely changed. San­ tall played one of the finest inniDgs of his life, hitting with great power whenever an opportunity offered, and showing great command over the bowling, while Moorhouse played very sound cricket. The partner­ ship for the eighth wicket produced 70 runs in fifty minutes, and without doubt had much to do with the ultimate success of Warwickshire. Yorkshire began their innings at four o’clock, but in a few minutes rain came down heavily, and it was not until half­ past five that the game Mas resumed, when Yorkshire met with disaster and lost three wickets for 34. On the neat day there was no play until after lunch, when Field and Hargreave bowled so well that their county had the useful lead of 48 on the first innings. In the second innings Warwickshire lost five wickets for 48 before the end of the day, and were thus 9 runs on. The tail could do very littl« on Saturday morning, but the wicket was so difficult that York­ shire’s task of making 131 runs to win stemed a very hard one. Field and Hargreave again howled splen­ didly and were so well backed up by the field that six wickets were down at lunch-time for 66. Afterwards, Ernest Smith and Baigh made amost plucky attempt to pull the match out of the fire, and when they were separated only 24 runs remained to be made, with three wickets in hand. But although Myers made a useful score at this critical moment while Haivh sur­ vived until the total reached 120, Warwickshire managed to gain a well-earned victory at half-past three. W arw ickshire . Second innings, c Rhodes, b Hirst 0 Field ... Santall ... Hargreave Byrne ... Y orkshire . First innings. O. M. R. W. 7 63 7 ... 1 6 0 ... 8 27 3 ... 0 . 25 . 4 , 18’4 . 2 Moorhouse Second inninga. O. M. R. W. .21 4 56 4 . 3 0 14 0 . 28 2 11 45 5 1 0 Field delivered eight wides and Santall one wide. 12 First innings. T.8 Fishwick, c Tunnicliffe, b Myers ........................ 26 K iD neir, c Grimshaw, b Hirst ............................... 7 Charlesworth, b Hirst.......... 0 Quaife, b Myers .................20 J.F.Byrne,cHunter.b Myers 12 Lilley, c Smith, b Myers ... 10 Whittle, b Myers................. 3 Santall, c Tunnicliffe, b H aigh...............................61 Moorhouse, c Tunnicliffe, b lbw, b Haigh ... 17 c Tunnicliffe, b Rhodes .......... 1 c Hunter, b Hirst 16 b Rhodes .......... 8 c and b Haigh ... 19 c and b Rhodes .. 4 o Tunnicliffe, b Rhodes .......... 0 MIDDLESEX v. NOTTS. WILFRED FLOWERS* BENEFIT. A FIRST WICKET PARTNERSHIP OF 3 0 6 . Played at Trent Bridge on August 11, and 13. Middlesex won by eight wickets. Part of the proceeds of this match were set aside for the benefit of Flowers, the famous old Notts professional, whose benefit nine years ago was not a success. Unfortunately the weather was so bad on the first day that the game did not begin until half­ past one, and only a few people came to see the play. For a time things went very well indeed for Motts, and with only one wicket down the total was 195. of which Iremonger and Jones made 83 for the first wicket. But before stumps were arawn there was a different tale to tell, and five more wickets fell for the addition of lc6 runs, Bosanquet being responsible for four of the wickets. On Friday the Kev. H. Staunton, who had played exceedingly well over­ night for 47, increased his total to 78 by fine cricket, but the Notts tail did not distinguish itself. When Middlesex went in Warner and J. Douglas played such fine cricket, and met with such good fortune in the way of dropped catches, that before they were parted they had brought the total to 3 6, which was only 87 short of that made by Notts. Douulas made his 163 in three hours, while Warner took half-an- hour longer to score his 163. The Notts total was passed before another wicket fell, and thanks to good scores by G. W. Beldam, C. Palmer, (J. M. vt ells, and J. T. Hearne, the score when tbe day’s play ended was 494 for eight wickets. Thus on Saturday Middlesex resumed their inniDgs with a lead of 161, and when the innings came to an end they were 173 to the good. When Notts went in again Iremonger playeo another beautiful inniDgs, but there was no other outstanding score, and Middlesex were left with the easy task of scoring 64 to win. During the Notts second innings bosanquet was nearly as successful as in the first. A good many ruts were made off his bowlmg, but he got the batsmen out. N otts . First ionings. A. O. Jones, o Calmer, b Hearne...............................49 Napier ... Bosanquet Douglas ... Wells ... Trott Hearne ... More N otts . First inniDgs. O. M. R. W 10 2 34 0 30.5 5 8 10 1 106 0 15 1 21 1 37 9 77 6 . 0 . 0 . 0 . 4 . 0 . Beldam . Second innings. O. M. R. W. !!! 37 5 134 6 9 7.5 8 9 5 Napier bowled one wide and one no-ball, Bosan­ quet one wide, and More two no-balls. M iddlesex . First innings. J. Gunn... .. 48.2 5 182 7 ... ... 8.3 0 29 1 Waos .. 23 4 102 2 ... ... 7 1 28 1 Jones .. 13 2 63 0 ... ... 1 0 2 0 Branston .. 6 0 24 0 ... Iremonger .. 14 1 63 0 ... Hardstaff .. 7 1 44 1 ... Anthony .. .. 6 0 32 0 ... J. Gunn bowled a no-ball and Wass a wide. Haigh Hargreave, Rhodes.......... Field, not out No-ball Total Denton, b 28 lbw, b Haigh not out.......... run out B 4, lb 6 Total ... 82 Y orkshire . Iremonger, st MacGregor, b Bosanquet .................97 Gunn (J.). lbw, b Hearne... 52 Gunn (G.), c MacGregor, b Bosanquet........................ 7 R. E. Hemingway, b Bosan~ quet ... .................20 Rev. H. Staunton, c More, b Bosanquet ....................78 Hardstaff, c Napier, b Bosanquet......................... 0 G. T. Branston, c Wells, b First innings. Rudston, c Charlesworth, b Field ............................... Grimshaw, b Hargreave ... Denton, c Quaife, b Field Hunter, c Charlesworth, b Field ............................... Tunnicliffe, c Kinneir, b Pield .............. .......... Hirst, c Byrne, b Field Rhodes, lbw, b Bargreave.. E. Smith, c Lilley, b Field Halgb, c Fishwick, b Field Myers, notout ................. Oyston, c Fishwick, b Har­ greave ................................ B 2, w 6 ................. Second innings. 9 c Fishwick,bField 8 39 b Field................. 4 1 c Lilley, b Field 12 run out .......... 0 c Santall, b Har­ greave ..........20 lbw. b Hargreave 6 c Lilley, b Field 8 b Bargreave ... 22 c Charlesworth, b Hargreave b Hargreave notout.. B 5, w 3 Total... .................116 W arw ickshire . Total First innings. O. M. R. W. Hirst ..........24 6 62 2 . Myers ..........19 2 €8 6 . Rhodes .......... 6 1 9 1 . Haigh .......... 4*8 1 8 2 Oyston .......... 6 0 16 0 Second innings. O. M .R . W. 8 17 2 0 4 0 42 4 4 9 8 . 10 , 1 13 . 8*3 Myers delivered one no-ball. Bosanquet... Anthony, lbw, b Hearne , Oates, c and b Hearne Wass, notout .......... 13 1 20 B 8, lb 10, w 1, nb 1 Total ................343 M iddlesex . Second i innings. c More, b Bosan­ quet ................. 5 lbw, b Trott ... 74 c Trott, b Beldam 6 c Wells, b Bosan­ quet .................16 c Heirne, b Bo­ sanquet ..........28 c and b Bosan­ quet .................19 st MacGregor, b Bosanquet ... 1 c Wells, b Trott 28 c Douglas, b Bosanquet ... 5 not ou t................16 c MacGregor, b Trott................. 6 B 14, lb 5, w 1,nb 2 22 Total . 226 First innings, P. F. Warner, c Branston, b bWass... ..........................163 notout... J. Dougla*, c J. Gunn, b H ardstaff..........................1C3 b Wats... G. W . Beldam, c Heming­ way, b J. Gunn.................... 84 C. Palmer,c Jones, bJ.GuDn 43 Secand innings. B. J. T. Bosanquet, c Jones, b J .G u n n ........................17 notout.. C. M. Wells, st Hardstaff, b J. Gunn ....................... 20 R. E. More, c Iremonger, b J. Gunn ................. ... 0 Trott, c Jones, b J. Gunn... 2 G. MacGregor, b Wa9s ... 30 Hearne (J. T.), not out ... 38 G. G. Napier, c Anthony, b J. Gunn ......................... 0 B 12, lb 2, w 1, nb 1 ... 16 st Hardstaff, b J. Gunn .......... LANCASHIRE v. ESSEX. AN INNINGS OF 215 BY R . H . SPOONER. Played at Leyton on August 11,12 and 13. Drawn. Rain fell steadily on the first day of this match until the afternoon, but the ground dried quickly and the game was commenced shortly after a quarter past four, although at a quarter past six slumps were drawn on acoount of the bad litht. In the two hours at their disposal Lancashire scored lt3 for the loss of two wickets. Maclaren, Tyidesley and Hallows all batted well, but the chief honours rested with Spooner, who after scoring three brilliant fours in his first over, played a bold and determined game so finely that he was not out 84 at the end of the day. On the next morniDg he and Hallows (not out 27) played splendid cricket, both taking risks occasion­ ally, but makiog no serious mistakes, and it was not until their partnership had accounted for 296 runs in three houis that they were separated. Hallows was the first to go with the total at 400, and after ten more had been added Spooner followed him. Dpooner’s innings was undoubtedly one of the fiuest he has ever played; he nearly always picked out the right bail to hit, and put a great deal of force into his strokes, many of nis drives being magnificent: he was at the wickets for four hours and a quarter, and his chief hits included twenty-eight 4’s. When he was dismissed lunch was taken, but Maclaren did not declare until shortly before four o’clock when nearly a hundred more runs had been added. In the two hours and-a-half which remained for play Essex scored 1^9 for two wickets, Carpenter and Perrin Loth playing beautiful cricket. The latter was not out with 67 to his credit when stumps were drawn, and McGahey not out 10. It probably did not occur to many of the Lancashire men that they would have to field for tLe rest of the match, and that their own total would be passed, but so ixuny of the home team played fine cncket on Saturday that Essex ended with the best of the situation. When the game was resumed Essex still required 227 runs to save the follow-on, but in an hour and a half Perrin and McGahey knocked off 100 of these for the third wicket. Perrin was the fourth man out ufter making 143 out of 283 in four hours; his beiutiful drives were especially noticeable and his hits included twenty 4’s. When only four more runs had been made two more wickets were down and 68 runs were still required to save the follow-on. But A. J. Turner and Keigwin set to work and for two hours played such fine cricket that before they were parted all danger of defeat was out of the question. Eight wickets were down for 439, but Buckenham made a useful 25 and remained until the total was 471 for nine wickets. But in dismissing Buckenham the success of the Lancashire bowlers came to an end, for Reeves hit so brilliantly while Douglas kept up his wicket that not only was the Lancashire total passed with ease, but 88 runs were put on for the last wicket in forty minutes. 15 Total... . 616 Total (2 wkts) 64 L ancashire . A.C.Maclaren,b Buck­ enham .....................21 R. H. Spooner,b Buck­ enham ...................215 Tyldesley, c Perrin, b Keigwin .................... 20 Hallows,b Buckenhaml:i6 L. O. S. Poidevin, lbw, b R eeves................... 5 * Innings declared closed. Heap, W . Findlay, and Kermode did not bat. Sharp, not out ..........38 A.H. Hornby, b Buck­ enham ... ... 20 Cuttell, not out... 28 B 22, lb 6, w 2, nb 3 33 Total (6 wkts)*606